- This is unquestionably the best album of ATRIARCH’s career, which is impressive given the critical acclaim of the last album! Recommended if You Like: Neurosis, The Birthday Party, Tombs, Pallbearer, Swans, Yob ... [!]
After two critically beloved records on Seventh Rule and Profound Lore, ATRIARCH make their Relapse debut with their finest moment yet. Blending death rock, doom, black metal, punk and psychedelic drone/noise ATRIARCH immediately establish themselves as one of the most creative and compelling heavy-music bands of the 21st century. Imagine Bauhaus as covered by Eyehategod, or Sisters of Mercy filtered through Neurosis, and you start to get the picture of what ATRIARCH has achieved on their new record. Once every few years a band comes along that takes the familiar and creates something wholly new. ATRIARCH have done just that with An Unending Pathway.
“shambling, ritualistic drone that gets its talons into you via crusty howls, a colossal dynamic, and the overall feel of continuing ritual” - Pitchfork
“a swarthy, crushing voyage through a blackened ritualistic soundscape” - Cvlt Nation
“Like Swans and even Eyehategod before them, they've started to sound as tough as their themes suggest they might” - Pitchfork
“doom-soaked, gothic death rock...an act that have our undivided attention.” - Exclaim
TRACKLIST CD/ LP:
1. Entropy
2. Collapse
3. Revenant
4. Bereavement
5. Rot
6. Allfather
7. Veil